The Battle For Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture, and Steel

by Paul Krause

Overview

Paul Krause calls upon the methods and insights of labor history, intellectual history, anthropology, and the history of technology to situate the events of the lockout and their significance in the broad context of America’s Guilded Age. Utilizing extensive archival material, much of it heretofore unknown, he reconstructs the social, intellectual, and political climate of the burgeoning post-Civil War steel industry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822971511
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	06/15/1992
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	584
File size:	9 MB

Table of Contents

Contents Preface Introduction Part One: The Battle for Homestead Map of Pittsburgh 1. Homestead and the American Republic in the Gilded Age 2. 6 July 1892: "A Carnival of Revenge" Part Two: Captains of Steel, Captains of Culture Problems in Iron Production in the Mid 1800s The Bessemer Process 4. Captains of Steel Abram S. Hewitt and the Promise of the Open Hearth Alexander Holley, Bessemer Engineering, and the Origins of Scientific Management Part Three: Labor Reform in Pittsburgh, 1867-1881: From "Amalgamation" to the Brink of Collapse 5. Indicting and Embracing the Civilization of the Nineteenth Century 6. Roots of Labor Reform and Machine Politics 7. Custom Confronts Capital: The Lockout of 1874-1875 8. Toward a Wider Amalgamation: The Knights of Labor 9. Mill Owners and Machine Politicians on the Offensive 10. Miners Amalgamate in "Late Afternoon" Part Four: "Tried and Found Faithful": Homestead Defies the Assault 11. Assaults on Labor The Homestead Glassworks and the Knights of Labor The Decision to Build a Steel Mill William Clark and the First Homestead Steelworkers 12. The Homestead Strike of 1882 13. "Defense, Not Defiance": Defeat in the City and the State Illustrations Part Five: Labor in Greater Pittsburgh During the 1880s 14. A Tale of Two Cities: Pittsburgh and Homestead 15. Republican Recruits: East Europeans in Homestead 16. Andrew Carnegie: Robber Baron and Philanthropist 17. The Homestead Lockout of 1889: The Making of a "Workers' Republic" 18. The Life and Times of "Beeswax" Taylor: Exemplary Paradoxes of American Labor Part Six: 1892 and Beyond: Legacies of Homestead 19. Captains of Business, Captains of Politics 20. 1892: The Stakes for Labor 21. Silenced Minorities 22. Winners and Losers Appendices Notes Bibliography Index